EIG alternatives in 2026
EIG is the incumbent for UK property auction data, and at the £575 a year ex VAT we were quoted in October 2025, plenty of people ask what else exists. Here are the real options, including the free ones and including the case for staying put.
1. AuctionRadar (that's us)
We aggregate live lots directly from UK auction houses' own catalogues (17,000+ live lots across 50 houses, refreshed every Monday), classify every lot for investor angles like probate, short lease and needs-refurb, and hold 192,000+ auction outcomes including 66,000+ sold prices, the deepest reaching back to 2002, many of them months before they reach the Land Registry. The lot search is free with no account; saved-search Monday alerts are £19/mo and the full data product (sold prices, repeat-lot history, CSV and the weekly Excel) is £49/mo, both priced openly. The honest limits: our archive's deepest results reach back to 2002, not the early 1990s, and we offer email support, not phone. The full trade-off is on AuctionRadar vs EIG.
2. Do it yourself, free
Every auction house publishes its catalogue on its own website, usually three to four weeks before sale day, and most publish results too. Join the mailing lists of the houses covering your patch (start from an auction house directory) and you get the raw data for nothing. The cost is time: dozens of catalogues in different formats, no cross-house search, no sold-price history unless you build your own spreadsheet, and it is easy to miss a lot. This is genuinely the right answer if you only watch one or two local houses.
3. The portals
Rightmove and Zoopla both carry auction lots from houses that choose to list there, and you can filter for them. Coverage is partial (many lots never appear, especially commercial and trade-facing stock), guide-price data is thin, and there is no results archive. Fine as a casual browse, not a working tool.
4. Other aggregators
A handful of smaller sites also collect UK auction listings. We will not characterise products we do not use week to week; when you evaluate one, check whether it covers your patch's houses, whether it holds results history, and how often listings refresh, because those three things are where auction data tools live or die.
5. Staying with EIG
The unfashionable option, but the correct one for some users. If you need comparables from before 2002, EIG's archive is the deepest we know of. If your reports need the industry-standard source or your workflow depends on their phone support, the £690 inc VAT they quoted is buying something real. An honest alternatives list says so.
Try the free layer first
Search every live lot we track right now, no account, no trial clock. If it does not beat your current setup, it cost you nothing to find out.
Search live lots freeLast reviewed July 2026. Corrections via the contact page.